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龈音

yín yīn

2-character word Traditional 齦音

What 龈音 means

1. alveolar sound (linguistics)

The characters in 龈音

• 龈yíngums (of the teeth)
• 音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale)

Words containing 龈音

• 软龈音ruǎn yín yīnvelar sound (linguistics)
• 颚龈音è yín yīnprepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics); palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
• 齿龈音chǐ yín yīnalveolar, apical, or supradental sound (linguistics)

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